Book Information: Cry Me a River

When an officer of the law is brutally slain, a fellow cop – one with a particular sensitivity to the darker corners of the human heart – sets out to solve the crime, not at first suspecting that, in his words, “We were after all, under the surface of things, a community of passionate people who sometimes slaughtered each other for love.” By book’s end we of course know “who done it” and why, but the greater pleasure lies in Pearson’s own investigations into carnal relations, sexual jealousy, men and women, the mean, the low-down, and the dead.